Mets in June

It was smooth sailing for Chris Capuano, until the seventh inning that is. Capuano gave up five runs, and the Mets’ three-run lead, to the Pirates before being pulled in the 9-3 loss.

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In one of their best wins all season, the Mets rallied back from a seven run deficit to beat the Pirates 9-8.

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The Braves infield, Brian McCann, Freddie Freeman, Chipper Jones and Dan Uggla celebrate their 6-3 win over the Mets. Jones hit a two-run home run to tie the game in the eighth inning before Francisco Rodriguez surrendered a tie-breaking home run to Eric Hinske in the ninth.

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Jose Reyes continued his red-hot season, hitting a bases-clearing triple to lead the Mets and starter Dillon Gee to a 5-0 win over the Braves.

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R.A. Dickey coasted for eight innings, only giving up one run, before the Mets bullpen made it interesting. Despite surrendering three ninth-inning runs, the Mets held on to beat the Braves 6-4.

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Jose Reyes, arguably the Mets’ best player through the first two months of the season, came through again as his two-run double powered the team to a 2-1 win over the Brewers.

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Nyjer Morgan reacts after his game-winning hit in the Brewers’ 7-6 win against the Mets. Morgan, who has bounced around in his young career, admitted after the game he thought it was only the eighth inning when he came to the plate.

Dillon Gee, one of the most surprising players on the Mets this season, improved to 7-0 with an eight-inning gem in the 8-1 win against the Pirates.

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Andrew McCutchen calmly talks to the home plate umpire during an at-bat. McCutchen, one of the young stars on the Pirates, drove in the game winning run in the Mets’ 3-2 loss to Pittsburgh.

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Chris Capuano got some revenge against the Pirates, who shelled him earlier this season, by pitching three-hit ball over seven innings in the Mets’ 7-0 win.

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The Mets failed to reach .500 as Paul Maholm and the Pirates stifled the Mets’ offense in the 3-1 loss.

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Jose Reyes continued his torrid June by leading the Mets with three hits and two steals in the team’s 4-3 win over the Braves.

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The Mets’ comeback push was stifled by Angels closer Jordan Walden. Walden struck out the side to close out a 4-3 win for the Angels.

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Jose Reyes and Angel Pagan celebrate after beating the Angels 6-1.

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Vernon Wells hit a solo home run and drove in two as the Angels provided rookie Tyler Chatwood with seven runs, which proved to be more than enough as Los Angeles beat the Mets 7-3 to take the series.

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A’s left fielder Hideki Matsui grins after catching a ball against the Mets. Matsui and the A’s pounded Dillon Gee, handing the rookie his first loss of the season with a 7-3 win.

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The Mets mob Justin Turner, who drove in the game-winning run without even swinging his bat. The Mets won 3-2 in 13 innings after Lucas Duda scored following Turner being hit by a pitch thrown by A’s pitcher Brad Zeigler.

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Josh Thole is congratulated by Justin Turner after scoring a run on a Jose Reyes single. The Mets wouldn’t need a ton of offense as Chris Capuano and the bullpen held the A’s to one run in the Mets’ 4-1 victory.

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Mike Pelfrey wipes sweat from his forehead after being roughed up by the American League Champion Texas Rangers. The Mets would go on to lose 8-1.

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Lucas Duda is congratulated in the dugout. Duda, who provided a huge boost to the Mets offense, clubbed three doubles and went 4-for-5 in the Mets’ 14-5 win over the Rangers.

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Dillon Gee bounced back from his worst outing of the season by pitching well enough to earn a win as the Mets beat the Rangers 8-5 to win the series.

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It was a grand day for the Mets offense. Both Carlos Beltran and Jason Bay hit grand slams in the Mets’ 14-3 romp of the Detroit Tigers.

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Continuing the offensive boom, the Mets put up 16 runs against the Tigers. Angel Pagan and Ronny Paulino both had four hits as the Mets beat Detroit 16-9.

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The Mets were unable to get anything going with their bats against Detroit’s Justin Verlander, but Mike Pelfrey didn’t help as he was tattooed by the Tigers hitters, giving up five runs (four earned) in 4 2/3 innings pitched. The Mets would lose 5-2.